>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Bruce> Oh, PacBell seems to be eating my emails and I am likely Bruce> unsubscribed from all my email lists, so you have to reply Bruce> directly. Evidence for this is my patch. It's not in the Bruce> email archive. So, here it is: Where? Bruce> It turns out I want to distribute the source for a library that may or Bruce> may not get built. Consequently, though I configure the Makefile when Bruce> building the distribution, I likely won't actually build the thing. Bruce> That has the following consequences for "make distcheck" (again): Bruce> 1. The library, a .deps subdirectory and some dependency files Bruce> get dropped into the distribution. This happens because Bruce> that directory must be specified in the EXTRA_DIST variable Bruce> when it is not in the SUBDIRS variable. I'm not sure I understant what you want to do, but this last statement sounds very odd. Why don't you simply use DIST_SUBDIRS? [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz